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How to Display Your Twitter Header Image + 10 Cool Examples

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Similar to Facebook’s Timeline cover and Google+ scrapbook images, Twitter has finally allowed users to showcase their personal header image on profile page. The process of displaying image is pretty simple. Twitter’s header image appears behind your avatar, this enables you to create a sense of interaction between your avatar and the header image.

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In today’s post, we’ll show you a quick tutorial guiding you to display your Twitter header image. On top of that, we’ve compiled a showcase of 10 creatively designed Twitter header images for your inspiration! Read more…

How to Setup and Configure WP Super Cache Plugin for WordPress Blog

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WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache are commonly used caching plugins to improve the performance of WordPress blogs. However these two plugins are not recommended to be installed together as they might conflict with each other. That’s the reason why many bloggers are trying to find out which one is better for improving server performance, reducing download times, caching site, and most importantly speeding up the page load time.

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We at Quertime.com have been using both WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache for a pretty long period of time. After comparing the two plugins, we’ve decided to stick with the latter. This is because WP Super Cache is easier to setup and configure, and more importantly the plugin managed to reduce the page load time of our site up to 50 percent, which is very impressive. Read more…

How to Set Google DNS on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

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Just like changing DNS settings on your computer, you can do the same on your Apple devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. By enabling Google DNS or OpenDNS, your Apple devices able to run faster and safer on the web compared to most of the default Internet service provider’s DNS servers. Currently we can’t change the DNS settings on cellular Internet connection, but the iOS does allow us to modify the WIFI DNS settings. In today’s tutorial, we’ll show you how to switch your WIFI’s default DNS settings to Google DNS with just a few simple steps!

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Easy Way to Back up Your WordPress Blog to Dropbox

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How have you been backing up your WordPress files and database? Are you using the right method to back up your WordPress sites? Well, Backing up files is one of the most important routine tasks every WordPress blogger should perform at least on weekly basis. Without a proper backup, all your hard work might be wiped away in minutes due to web hosting or server breakdown, wrong plugin installed, or conflicts within WordPress system itself.

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Additionally hackers, malware, viruses are everywhere on the web trying to access website like yours. If you don’t want to be the next cyber victim, make sure all your website files and database are saved in somewhere safe. In case your site is down for whatever reasons, you can use your backup to restore your site immediately making it up and running again. Otherwise I bet you wouldn’t have motivation to start your site all over again from zero. Read more…

Google AdSense for Search: A New Approach towards Searching

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Google AdSense is playing a key role as a search box and if you go for searching anything then you will come to know that the result would be shown in the blog instead of the search engine. Let us see how it happens.

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Easy Ways to Add Watermark to Photos and Images Online

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Have you ever experienced that your online photos ripped by somebody else without asking your permission? To prevent this happen, you can watermark all your images before uploading them to your website, blog or social media sites. This method can effectively discourage unauthorised copies and, on the other hand, promote your website. Following are some of the best ways you can use to watermark your images online, free and easy!

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How to Create a Custom Error 404 Page for WordPress Blog

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As bloggers, we try our best to ensure that every link we create goes to a specific page on our site. However, in the event that we delete out-of-date posts or pages without removing the links to them, there is a chance that a link clicked will lead to Error 404 page. Instead of displaying your visitors “Sorry, page not found”, you should put more helpful message suggesting them what to do next such as go to homepage, contact administrator, or perform searches.

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In today’s post, we will teach you how to customize your Error 404 page so that it’s more helpful to your visitors and consistent with your theme style. Read more…

How to Change the Background of Facebook Login Page

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Bored of seeing the same blue and white Facebook homepage every time you login? Well, it’s time to change the Facebook login page with your own custom design! Yes, you heard it right! You are allowed to change and customize the background of your Facebook login page. Does it sound unbelievable? Today we would like to introduce you a cool Google Chrome extension that allows you to set a custom image URL as your Facebook login page’s wallpaper. Be it a picture of your loved one or beautiful landscape photography, you can have any background customization you want.

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Without further ado, let’s follow the simple tutorial below to set your favorite image or photo as your Facebook login page’s background! Read more…

Top 40 WordPress Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Plugins

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As blogger, you should’ve come across some cool features in other’s blog and you may wonder how you can apply them in your own blog as well. Well, don’t feel bad about it as most of the bloggers have experienced this feeling. Another common situation is that you want to add new functionality or change some design on your blog, but you don’t know the keywords to search for the right tips, tutorials or plugin helping you to get the job done.

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In today’s article, we’ve gathered some of the most wanted WordPress tips, tricks, tutorials and plugins that are absolutely useful for your blog. Make sure you go through the list as you might find the solution you want here. Read more…

65 Truly Awesome Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials (Part 2)

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We’ve previously showcased 60 truly awesome Photoshop photo effects tutorials, but we realised that there were still plenty of excellent tutorials out there which worth your attention. That’s the reason why we’ve decided to add 65 additional Photoshop photo tutorials to our previous entry. So don’t miss the opportunity to enhance your photo editing skill!

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60 Truly Awesome Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

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Don’t be disappointed if you are not a good photographer, because you still can publish great photos online as long as you have photo editing skills in Photoshop. That’s probably part of the reasons why the demand for Photoshop tutorials has been increasing in these days. With Photoshop, you can perform various kinds of image effects, photo manipulation, image abstract design, 3D, and several other design features with a very satisfactory quality. Today we are going to showcase up to 60 useful Photoshop tutorials for awesome photo effects. We hope you will like this collection.

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How to Create a YouTube Playlist to Make a Looping of Video Clips

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Do you want to watch a bunch of YouTube videos all at once without having to select one after another? One way to get a collection of clips to play back-to-back is to put them all on a playlist within YouTube. Here are a few ways to get you started with making your YouTube playlists:

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Top 50 of Best Photoshop Tutorial Web Sites for Graphic Designers and Web Designers

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When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first image editing program to consider. The program’s popularity has made tons of great tutorials, tips, and techniques available on the web. So it’s possible for you to master your Photoshop skills at home without taking any graphic design courses. To help you get it started immediately, here is our ultimate compilation of Photoshop resource sites with a wide variety of tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time. So let’s check them out and take this opportunity to enrich your design skills!

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How to Find Out FeedBurner Subscriber Feed Counts of Any Websites and Blogs

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FeedBurner provides a feature called FeedCount that allows users to promote their feeds by displaying the subscriber figures. However some bloggers prefer to disable this feed counter (also known as feed chicklet) due to their own reasons. Well if you are curious about one blog’s FeedBurner subscriber figures but you can’t find any feed chicklet on it, here’s the solution.

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How to Turn on or Enable Safe Search Filter on Google, Yahoo! and Bing Search Engines

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Are you sharing the same computer with your children? Do you know that when your children surfing the net, they might expose to some sexual and violent contents? While no software filter replaces parental supervision, most of the search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing do provide filter for safer searching that can help to prevent adult content from appearing in the search results. Although SafeSearch filters are not 100 percent accurate, but they should help you avoid most of this type of material. Simply follow the step by step guidance below to enable SafeSearch feature on Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

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